elective

IPA: ɪɫˈɛktɪv

Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.

Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
Open to choice; freely chosen; (also, usually) unnecessary; minor.
(US health care system, technical) Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious).

Examples of "elective" in Sentences

Ayotte has no prior experience in elective office?
So Ayotte has no prior experience in elective office?
There are way too many Conservatives in elective office at this time.
Although I do not know Mr. Burris personally, he has served the State of Illinois in elective office for many years.
Solomon John thought the trouble might be in what they called the elective system, where you were to choose what study you might take.
Anybody who showed up down there right now with a key to the office and the electrical system would have guaranteed lifetime tenure in elective office around here.
My father called politics an honorable profession, and I have profound respect for those who choose to advance the causes of social and economic justice in elective office.
DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Wolf, well, the vice president's office tells us that he's going to have what they call elective surgery, to remove an aneurysm in the artery behind his right knee, and that is going to happen next weekend, according to top aide, Steve Schmidt.